Together but separate
I’ve heard it all before
White
The epitome of humanity
So they say
Colored
My life, my name
A disgrace that should be exterminated from the human race
NO
I am no such thing
I am not venomous and I will not feel guilty for living in the nation of the free
I am not free
I am discriminated
Suffocated in the land where torture is a normality
What has this country become
Where giving death and hate is the equivalent of giving sense of the meaning of life
This land and these pale people
They are the wolf that will blow us down to the ground
But what will be on the other side
What will you do
I found that the structure of this poem really helps the flow. I really love the stanza "Suffocated in the land where torture is a normality--What has this country become--Where giving death and hate is the equivalent of giving sense of the meaning of life". I find that it provides an image of how places that don't seem real to some are very real to others. What made you choose the photo that you used to base this poem off of?
ReplyDeleteThe way the poem was structured really cought my eye and I like the way it looks. This image you used is so powerful and has so much meaning and I feel you did a very good job explaining how people of color felt when they had heavy discrimination. It was easy to read and I was drawn in my the image and the more I read the poem.
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